There are three hitters in Major League Baseball with a Chase rate below 25 percent, a Barrel rate above 10 percent and a Sprint Speed in the top 10 percent (min. 145 plate appearances): the Angels’ Mike Trout, Atlanta’s Ronald Acuña Jr., and the Astros’ new everyday center fielder, Chas McCormick.
It’s not often that a team with the American League’s best record through July willfully turns over the starting center field job to a rookie. But that is the position the Astros have put themselves in following an unexpected deadline day trade.